1.5.1, OS X

When I try this on a fresh project, I get this error:
"ClassNotFoundException org.slf4j.MDC
java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run (URLClassLoader.java:202)
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged (AccessController.java:-2)"

Howard, could you give us a project.clj or better yet a github repository that recreates this issue?

I'll see what I can do. Probably be next week. Thanks for looking at this.

Attached patch fixes the issue, and adds regression test for it.

Verified patch works

in my sample project, i used a nested class, but i didnt have to (as pointed by Marko Topolnik). changing the java code to:

abstract class AbstractParent{
final public int x() {return 6;}
}

public class test extends AbstractParent {}

and the clojure to:

(ns call-test.core (:gen-class))
(defn -main [& args](.x ^AbstractParent (test.)))

would produce the same error,

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can't call public method of non-public class: public final int AbstractParent.x()
at clojure.lang.Reflector.invokeMatchingMethod(Reflector.java:88)

This issue affects the upcoming netty-4.0 release in which the public modifier of AbstractBootstrap was removed.

To get Netty 4 working with Clojure I had to create a set of public static Java methods for the various inaccessible Netty calls, which I then call from Clojure. A PITA, but works fine. Happy to post code if anyone would find it useful.

Matthew, i kinda left that project after running to these and other troubles (focused on previous Netty until version 4 will become ready and be properly documented), but i'd still like to see your code. you have a github account or a gist with it?

Clojure devs - are there any plans of checking this problem out? it came up from Netty, but the problem is pretty generic

I think the main "issue" here resides within the undocumented functionality of fn*. (fn* [x] x) is a semantically working function, but (fn [x] x) expands into (fn* ([x] x)). Anonymous function literals expand into (fn* [gensyms] (...)), and as such, it also accepts expressions like (fn* [x] x). Should pprint pretty print expressions which has used fn* directly, or should it "just" ignore it?

Attached patches test and fix issue + tangent

Note: Patch 0003 just adds the arity check, hence is optional, but if it's omitted from the patchset, the corresponding test from patch 0001 will fail.

Summarizing the decisions in these patches:

• instance? and apply instance? should be consistent
• they should check arity (matching apply instance? existing behavior)
• they should allow lexical shadowing of the class argument (matching apply instance? existing behavior)

It is possible (although unlikely) that existing code relies on the current eccentric behavior of instance?. I think it would be fair to categorize programs relying on this behavior as buggy, but that is easy for me to say.

I think that this patch would be much more helpful to users if it reported the problem form (both name and params).

(And I wonder if we should be using ex-info for all errors going forward.)

New version of the patch that mentions both method name and argument vector, and uses ex-info as Stu suggested.

Presumuptuously changing Approval from Incomplete back to None, since the reason for marking it Incomplete seems to have been addressed with a new patch.

Tested on Mac OS X 10.8 and Oracle JVM 1.7.0 update 13.

This sounds reasonable, but anything touching classloaders must be considered very carefully.

It seems overly complex to have the patch do so much code generation. Why not implement a method that does this job, and have the generated code call that?

I have encountered this problem as well. Did not verify the explanation, but sounds reasonable.

The relevant code seems to be this in clojure.lang.Numbers/divide:

if(yops.isZero((Number)y))
  throw new ArithmeticException("Divide by zero");

Making Numbers/divide be more restrictive than double arithmetic seems like a bug; explicitly throwing an ArithmeticException instead of letting the JVM figure it just seems like more work than necessary.

replicated on OpenJDK 7u9 on Ubuntu 12.04, and Hotspot 1.6.0_37 on OSX Lion

It's a little more insidious than type hinting: the compiler doesn't evaluate metadata in the binding vec.

This doesn't throw the necessary exception...

(let [^{:foo (Class/forName "not real")} bar 42]
bar)

neither this...

(let [^{gyorgy ligeti} a 42]
a)

Gyorgy Ligeti never resolves.

These two equivalent examples don't reflect:
(let [^objects a (make-array Object 2)]
(aget a 0))

(let [a ^objects (make-array Object 2)]
(aget a 0))

On only the left-hand side of a local binding, metadata on a symbol is not analyzed or evaluated.

This patch works great for me to avoid OOM/PermGen crashes from classloaders being retained [mine is a non-servlet use case].

I understand that the definition of equality between bigDecimals is dependent on both value and scale as in this case:

user> (== 0.000000M 0.0M)
false

I just want to make sure the decission to propagate that semantic across types is intentional. If this is on purpose than this is not a bug.

this could be fixed by calling stripTrailingZeros on bigDecimals before comparing them to Longs or BigInts.

(== 2 (double (. 2.0M stripTrailingZeros)))
true

Edited by Andy Fingerhut: Unfortunately that fails for BigDecimal values equal to 0, unless they happen to have a scale that matches what you are comparing it to.

I think a more complete solution is to use BigDecimal's compareTo method, e.g.:

(zero? (.compareTo 2.0M (bigdec 2)))
true

It seems we need some more eyes on this issue, can you bring this up on clojure-dev and see what they think?

Patch clj-1118-make-double-equals-true-for-more-bigdecimals-patch-v1.txt dated Apr 14 2013 changes equiv for BigDecimals so that instead of using BigDecimal.equals(), it uses BigDecimal.compareTo() and checks the return value is equal to 0.

The Java docs for these methods explicitly state that BigDecimal.equals() will treat values that are otherwise equal numerically, but differ in scale, as not equal.

They also say that BigDecimal.compareTo() will return 0 for such BigDecimals.

I'm not sure if this is the preferred behavior for Clojure, but if it is, this patch should do it.

clj-1118-make-double-equals-true-for-more-bigdecimals-patch-v2.txt dated Apr 14 2013 is same as clj-1118-make-double-equals-true-for-more-bigdecimals-patch-v1.txt described in previous comment, except it also has some new tests included.

clj-1118-make-double-equals-true-for-more-bigdecimals-patch-v3.txt dated Apr 15 2013 is the same as the the previous patch clj-1118-make-double-equals-true-for-more-bigdecimals-patch-v2.txt, except for the following:

By changing == behavior for BigDecimal by modifying the BigDecimalOps.equiv() method, that also changes the behavior of = when comparing BigDecimal values to other numbers. hash should be consistent with =, so now hash should return same value for all numerically equal BigDecimal values. This patch should achieve that.

Rich Hickey committed a change on Dec 21, 2012 to the future-call function that made the patch bac37b91230d8e4ab3a1e6042a6e8c4b7e9cbf53.patch dated Nov 18 2012 no longer apply cleanly.

clj-1108-enhance-future-call-patch-v2.txt dated Dec 26 2012 is identical to that earlier patch, except it has been updated to apply cleanly to the latest master.

It would be best if Max Penet, author of the earlier patch, could verify I've merged his patch to the latest Clojure master correctly.

It's verified, it applies correctly to the latest master 00978c76edfe4796bd6ebff3a82182e235211ed0 .

Thanks Andy.

The suggested patch (clj-1100-reader-literal-periods.patch) will break reading records when *default-data-reader-fn* is set. Try adding a test like this:

(deftest tags-containing-periods-with-default
      ;; we need a predefined record for this test so we (mis)use clojure.reflect.Field for convenience
      (let [v "#clojure.reflect.Field{:name \"fake\" :type :fake :declaring-class \"Fake\" :flags nil}"]
        (binding [*default-data-reader-fn* nil]
          (is (= (read-string v) #clojure.reflect.Field{:name "fake" :type :fake :declaring-class "Fake" :flags nil})))
        (binding [*default-data-reader-fn* (fn [tag val] (assoc val :meaning 42))]
          (is (= (read-string v) #clojure.reflect.Field{:name "fake" :type :fake :declaring-class "Fake" :flags nil})))))

The problem assessment is ok, but the resolution approach may not be. What happens should be based not upon what is in data-readers but whether or not the name names a class.

Is the intent here to allow readers to circumvent records? I'm not in favor of that.

New patch following Rich's comments. The decision to read a record is now based on the symbol containing periods and not having a namespace. Otherwise, it is considered a data reader tag. User
defined tags are required to be qualified but they may now have periods in the name. Tests added to show that
data readers cannot override record classes. Note: Clojure-defined data reader tags may be unqualified, but they should not contain periods in order to avoid confusion with record classes.

I deleted my old patch and some comments referring to it to avoid confusion.

In Clojure 1.5 beta 1, # followed by a qualified symbol with a period in the name is considered a record and causes an exception for the missing record class. With the patch, only non-qualified symbols containing periods are considered records. That allows user-defined qualified symbols with periods in their names to be used as data reader tags.

clj-1100-periods-in-data-reader-tags-patch-v2.txt dated Feb 7 2013 is identical to CLJ-1100-periods-in-data-reader-tags.patch dated Nov 29 2012, except it applies cleanly to latest master. The only change appears to be in some white space in the context lines.

I've removed clj-1100-periods-in-data-reader-tags-patch-v2.txt mentioned in the previous comment, because I learned that CLJ-1100-periods-in-data-reader-tags.patch dated Nov 29 2012 applies cleanly to latest master and passes all tests if you use this command to apply it.

% git am --keep-cr -s --ignore-whitespace < CLJ-1100-periods-in-data-reader-tags.patch

I've already updated the JIRA workflow and screening patches wiki pages to mention this --ignore-whitespace option.

Both of the current patches, CLJ-1100-periods-in-data-reader-tags.patch dated Nov 29 2012, and clj-1100-reader-literal-periods.patch dated Nov 6 2012, fail to apply cleanly to latest master (1.5.0-RC15) as of today, although they did last week. Given all of the changes around read / read-string and edn recently, they should probably be evaluated by their authors to see how they should be updated.

I deleted my patch: CLJ-1100-periods-in-data-reader-tags.patch. clj-1100-reader-literal-periods.patch is clearly wrong, but the original author or an administrator has to delete that.

I cannot figure out how to remove my attachment (clj-1100-reader-literal-periods.patch) in JIRA.

Downarrow (popup) menu to the right of the "Attachments" section. Choose "manager attachments".

Great, thanks Steve. Are you going to take another pass at this issue, or should I give it a go?

Kevin, I'm not planning to work on this right now as 1.5 is pretty much done. It might be worthwhile discussing the issue a bit on the dev mailing list before working on a patch, but that's up to you. I think my approach was correct, although now changes would have to be applied to both LispReader and EdnReader.

Unable to reproduce this bug on latest version of master. Most likely fixed by some of the recent changes to data literal readers.

Marking Not-Approved.

Could not reproduce in master.

I just checked, and the problem still exists for records with no arguments:

Clojure 1.6.0-master-SNAPSHOT
user=> (defrecord a [])
user.a
user=> #user.a[]
{}

Admittedly it's an edge case and I see little usage for no-arguments records, but I think it should be addressed aswell since the current behaviour is not what one would expect

Got the following REPL interaction:

% java -jar ~/.m2/repository/org/clojure/clojure/1.5.0/clojure-1.5.0.jar
user=> (defrecord a [])
user.a
user=> (a.)
#user.a{}
user=> #user.a{}
{}
#user.a[]
{}

This should be reopened or declined for another reason than reproducability.

I'm reopening this since the bug is still there.

Patch clj-1093-fix-empty-record-literal-patch-v2.txt dated Mar 13, 2013 is identical to Bronsa's patch 001-fix-empty-record-literal.patch dated Oct 24, 2012, except that it applies cleanly to latest master. I'm not sure why the older patch doesn't but git doesn't like something about it.

Found a work-around:

java -jar clojure-1.4.0.jar -e "(do (require 'clojure.repl) (.setDynamic #'clojure.repl/print-doc) (with-bindings {#'clojure.repl/print-doc str} (clojure.main/repl)))))"

I'm still not sure whether the method above using :init should or should not work.

{{CLJ-1097.diff}} contains a fix for this issue, as well as a separate commit that eliminates a series of casts in order to improve readability in the area.

Chas, your patch doesn't apply cleanly to latest Clojure master as of Oct 5 2012. I'm not sure, but I think some recent commits to Clojure on Oct 4 2012 caused that. I also take it as evidence of your awesomeness that you can write patches for tickets that haven't been filed yet

"patches for tickets that haven't been filed yet?"

Anyway, tweaking up this patch is a small price to pay for having column meta. New {{CLJ-1097.diff}} patch attached, applies clean on master as of now. Otherwise same contents as in the original patch, except:

• the same dynamic is also applied to :column metadata, now that it's available
• the changes have been rebased into a single commit (including the elimination of the casts in MetaReader, which were becoming so numerous that the code was less readable than most

"patches for tickets that haven't been filed yet?"

He was referring to the fact that you uploaded "CLJ-1097.diff" while the ticket is #1079

Oh, hah! Twice now, even! One more data point recommending my having slight dyslexia or somesuch. :-P

I've replaced the attached patch with one that is named properly to avoid any later confusion.

Refreshed patch to apply cleanly to master after the recent off by one patch for :column metadata.

This feels backwards to me. If a special purpose tool wants to convey information via metadata, why does it use names that collide with those used by LispReader?

The information being conveyed is the same :line and :column metadata conveyed by LispReader — in fact, that's where it comes from in the first place.

Kibit (and cljx) is essentially an out-of-band source transformation tool. Given an input like this:

(ns com.foo.hosty)

(defn ^:clj system-hash
  [x]
 (System/identityHashCode x))

(defn ^:cljs system-hash
  [x]
  (goog/getUid x))

…it produces two files, a .clj for Clojure, and a .cljs for ClojureScript. (The first code listing in the ticket description is the former.)

However, because there's no way to transform Clojure code/data without losing formatting, anything that depends on line/column numbers (stack traces, stepping debuggers) is significantly degraded. If LispReader were to defer to :line and :column metadata already available on the loaded forms (there when the two generated files are spit out with *print-meta* on), this would not be the case.

clj-1079-patch-v2.txt dated Feb 7 2013 is identical to Chas's CLJ-1079.diff dated Oct 7 2012, except it applies cleanly to latest master. I believe the only difference is that some white space in the context lines is updated.

Sorry for the noise. I've removed clj-1079-patch-v2.txt mentioned in the previous comment, because I learned that CLJ-1079.diff dated Oct 7 2012 applies cleanly to latest master and passes all tests if you use this command to apply it.

% git am --keep-cr -s --ignore-whitespace < CLJ-1079.diff

I will update the JIRA workflow page instructions for applying patches to mention this, too, because there are multiple patches that fail without --ignore-whitespace, but apply cleanly with that option. That will eliminate the need to update patches merely for whitespace changes.

I have attached a patch that changes clojure.lang.Var and clojure.core/thread-bound? to only return true if a Var is set!-able.

Windows 7

Patch clj-1076-fix-tests-on-windows-patch-v1.txt dated Sep 29 2012 when applied to the particular commit that Ivan mentions causes the tests to pass when I run "ant" on a Windows 7 machine for me, and it continues to pass all tests on Mac OS X 10.6.8, too.

I may be doing something wrong, but when I try to run "ant" to build and test on Windows 7 with latest Clojure master, with or without this patch, it fails right at the beginning of the tests because it can't find clojure.test.generative. I'm probably doing something wrong somewhere. Ivan, would you be able to test this patch on Windows with the latest Clojure master to see if all tests pass for you now?

All tests pass on Windows 7 here with the patch.

Ant can't find my test.generative either because it isn't in my "${maven.test.classpath}". I put it in CLASSPATH and modified my build.xml like this:

<java classname="clojure.main" failonerror="false" fork="true">
<classpath>
+ <pathelement path="${java.class.path}"/>
<pathelement path="${maven.test.classpath}"/>

Just as a rough idea of how often people are hitting this issue, CLJ-1123 was opened on Dec 9 2012 and then closed when the ticket creator realized it was a duplicate of this one.

Hi there is this likely to get fixed soon?

I'd like to help contribute some more patches to Clojure but it's tricky to do when I can't get the build to work

I do not know if or when this patch will be committed to Clojure.

I can tell you that you can apply the patch to your own local copy of the Clojure source code, and then develop new Clojure patches based upon that version. The patch that fixes this problem only affects one test file, so it is unlikely to conflict with any changes you develop and submit.

I can confirm this patch works fine for me on Windows with Maven/Eclipse

Suggest this patch gets pushed through approval and applied ASAP? It's a pretty obvious fix that is breaking the build....

This patch is sloppy – it makes unnecessary whitespace changes in several places.

Would it be better to make the tests trailing whitespace agnostic? Otherwise this feels like poking and prodding until the build box is happy.

Patch clj-1076-fix-tests-on-windows-patch-v2.txt dated Mar 2, 2013 fixes pprint tests on Windows in a different way: Removing all occurrences of carriage return (\r) characters in the output of pprint before comparing it to the expected string.

I tried simply doing str/trim-newline to remove newlines and carriage returns at the end of the string, but that does not make the tests pass. They still fail due to carriage returns in the middle of the string.

Presumptuously changing Approval from Incomplete back to None, since there is a new patch attached that should address the reason it was marked Incomplete.

Whoops, according to http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/JIRA+workflow I should have emailed clojure-dev before filing this ticket. Here is the discussion:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure-dev/ME3-Ke-RbNk/discussion

Attached 001-make-PersistentQueue-implement-List.diff, 15/Sep/12

Note that this patch has a minor conflict with the one I added to CLJ-1070, because both add an extra interface to PersistentQueue - List in this case, IHashEq in CLJ-1070.

Philip, patch looks pretty good – thanks for doing this. A couple notes:

This is only my opinion, but I prefer imports be listed without wildcards, even if it means an extra couple lines at the top of a .java file.

I noticed the "List stuff" code is a copy of what's in ASeq and EmptyList. I suppose this is copied because EmptyList and PersistentQueue extend Obj and therefore can't extend ASeq. Is this the only reason? It seems a shame to duplicate these method definitions, but I don't know of a better solution, do you?

It would also be nice if the test check a couple of the List methods you've implemented.

oh, also "git am" refused to apply the patch, but I'm not sure why. "patch -p 1" worked perfectly.

did you use the --keep-cr option to git am?

I struggled to know whether I should be adding CRs or not to line endings, because the files I was editing weren't consistent in their usage. If you open them in emacs, half the lines have ^M at the end.

Will submit another patch, with the import changed. I'll have a think about the list implementation and see what ideas I can come up with.

Attached 002-make-PersistentQueue-implement-Asequential.diff

This patch is an alternative to 001-make-PersistentQueue-implement-List.diff

So I took on board what you said about ASeq, but it didn't feel right making PersistentQueue directly implement ISeq, somehow.

So I split ASeq into two parts – ASequential, which implements j.u.{Collection,List} and manages List-equality and hashcodes; and ASeq, which... doesn't seem to be doing much anymore, to be honest.

As a bonus, this patch fixes CLJ-1070 too, so I went and added the tests from that ticket in to demonstrate this fact. It also tidies up PersistentQueue by removing all equals/hashcCode stuff and all Collection stuff.

(It turns out that because ASeq was already implementing Obj, the fact that PersistentQueue was implementing Obj was no barrier to using it.)

Would appreciate comments on this approach, and how it differs from the previous patch here and the patch on CLJ-1070.

Looking at EmptyList's implementation of List, it is a duplicate of the others, but it shouldn't be. I think its implementation of indexOf is the biggest culprit - it should just be 'return -1;' but it has a great big for loop! But this is beyond the scope of this ticket, so I won't patch that here.

Philip, now that the patch for CLJ-1070 has been applied, these patches no longer apply cleanly. Would you be willing to update them? If so, please remove the obsolete patches.

Andy, thanks so much for your efforts to make people aware of these things. I will indeed submit new patches, hopefully later this week.

Replaced existing patches with new ones which apply cleanly to master.

There are two patches:

001-clj-1059-make-persistentqueue-implement-list.diff

This fixes equality by making PersistentQueue implement List directly. I also took the opportunity to remove the wildcard import and to add tests for the List methods, as compared with the previous version of the patch.

002-clj-1059-asequential.diff

This fixes equality by creating a new abstract class ASequential, and making PersistentQueue extend this.

My preferred solution is still the ASequential patch, but I'm leaving both here for comparison.

Vetting.

Philip, this time I think it was patches that were committed for CLJ-1000 that make your patch 002-clj-1059-asequential.diff not apply cleanly. I often fix up stale patches where the change is straightforward and mechanical, but in this case you are moving some methods that CLJ-1000's patch changed the implementation of, so it would be best if someone figured out a way to update this patch in a way that doesn't clobber the CLJ-1000 changes.

Thanks Andy. Submitted a new patch, 002-clj-1059-asequential-rebased-to-cached-hasheq.diff, which supersedes 002-clj-1059-asequential.diff.

The patch 001-clj-1059-make-persistentqueue-implement-list.diff still applies cleanly, and is still an alternative to 002-clj-1059-asequential-rebased-to-cached-hasheq.diff.

Clojure 1.5.0-alpha4, Sun Java 1.6.0_35, with [org.codehaus.jsr166-mirror/jsr166y "1.7.0"]

Verified as a bug.

clj-1045-fold-by-halves-patch-v2.txt dated Jan 25 2013 is identical to fold-by-halves.patch dated Aug 18 2012, except it updates one line of context changed by a recent commit to Clojure master.

Also, the biginteger function has metadata saying that it has been added since 1.0, but it was actually added in 1.3. The bigint function has metadata saying that it has been added since 1.3, but it has been added since 1.0.

I think during the work to implement BigInt someone renamed the existing bigint function (which used to return a BigInteger) to biginteger, and the metadata got carried with it, then a new bigint function was added with :since 1.3 metadata even though that function name has existed since 1.0.

clj-1036-hasheq-for-biginteger-patch-v1.txt dated Sep 26 2012 makes BigInteger's return equal hash values for values considered equal by =.

It does the same for Float and Double types, which before returned different hash values for values considered equal by =

I went ahead and changed the :added metadata on bigint and biginteger, although I can see that without my change, the person who did that may have meant for the :added to go with the behavior of the function, not with the name. Paul's suggested change that I have in the patch is for the :added metadata to go with the name, not the function behavior. It is easy to remove that part of the patch if that change is not desired.

You can't just consider only the lower long of bigints. Also, what's the rationale for the float stuff?

clj-1036-hasheq-for-biginteger-patch-v2.txt dated Nov 13 2012 is identical to clj-1036-hasheq-for-biginteger-patch-v1.txt except that it addresses Rich's comment that for BigInt's and BigInteger values that don't fit in a long, their entire value must be hashed.

The rationale for the changes to hasheq for Float and Double types is the same as the rationale for the change for BigInteger: without that change, Float and Double types that are = can have different hasheq values.

Although you are correct that Double and Float are =, but have different hashes:

user=> (apply = [(Double. -1.0) (Float. -1.0)])
true
user=> (map hash [(Double. -1.0) (Float. -1.0)])
(-1074790400 -1082130432)

I could not get the same errant behavior out of PHM:

user=> (assoc clojure.lang.PersistentHashMap/EMPTY (Float. -1.0) :oops! (Double. -1.0) :one)
{-1.0 :one}

I haven't taken the time to investigate exactly what is happening here, but either way I think this ticket is very specifically about BigInteger and the Float/Double issue could be explored in another ticket.

I can open another ticket for the Float/Double issue if that is what people would prefer.

I think what is happening in the test case you give, Paul, is that the hash values for (Float. -1.0) and (Double. -1.0) happen to be the same in their least significant 20 bits, and PHM isn't using the upper bits where the hash values differ.

Clojure 1.5.0-beta without patch:
user=> (map #(format "%x" %) (map hash [(Float. -1.0) (Double. -1.0)]))
("bf800000" "bff00000")

There are other Float/Double values where this lucky accident doesn't happen, e.g.

Clojure 1.5.0-beta1 without patch:

user=> (= (Float. 1e9) (Double. 1e9))
true
user=> (map hash [(Float. 1e9) (Double. 1e9)])
(1315859240 1104006501)
user=> (assoc clojure.lang.PersistentHashMap/EMPTY (Float. 1e9) :oops! (Double. 1e9) :one)

With 1.5.0-beta1 plus patch clj-1036-hasheq-for-biginteger-patch-v2.txt:

user=> (= (Float. 1e9) (Double. 1e9))
true
user=> (map hash [(Float. 1e9) (Double. 1e9)])
(1315859240 1315859240)
user=> (assoc clojure.lang.PersistentHashMap/EMPTY (Float. 1e9) :oops! (Double. 1e9) :one)

Presumptuously changing status from Not Approved to Vetted, since patch clj-1036-hasheq-for-biginteger-patch-v2.txt should address the reasons that Rich marked the previous patch as Not Approved. Changing it to Vetted on the assumption that if Stuart Halloway marked the previous patch as Screened, the ticket itself is good enough to be Vetted.

Patches and tickets need to be better than this. Talks about BigInteger, changes hash for doubles. Lists problem but not approach, need to trawl through comments and code to see what's going on, etc.

Here is a workaround patch which makes this error less likely to occur.

Edward, it is Rich Hickey's policy only to consider for inclusion in Clojure patches written by people who have signed a Contributor Agreement: http://clojure.org/contributing

Were you interested in becoming a contributor?

Sure, although the patch attached is emphatically not the one you want to actually applying, since it only band-aids the problem.

Why is the old implementation left and commented out? If we are going to move to a new implementation, the old one should be removed.

As mentioned in the ticket description, the previously attached patch follows the pattern of into whose non-transient-enabled definition is left in core.clj with a #_ in front – I wasn't sure if that's something desirable in all cases.

Here's a new patch with the old impl removed.

Thanks for the updated patch, Michal. Sorry to raise such a minor issue, but would you mind using a different name for the updated patch? I know JIRA can handle multiple attached files with the same name, but my prescreening code isn't quite that talented yet, and it can lead to confusion when discussing patches.

Thanks for the heads-up, Andy! I've reattached the new patch under a new name.

Presumptuously changing Approval from Incomplete back to None after the Michal's updated patch was added, addressing the reason the ticket was marked incomplete.

The patch looks good and applies cleanly. Are there additional tests that we should run to verify that this is providing the improvement we think it is. Also, is there a discussion somewhere that started this ticket? There isn't a lot of context here.

Hi Aaron,

Thanks for looking into this!

From what I've been able to observe, this change hugely improves zipmap times for large maps. For small maps, there is a small improvement. Here are two basic Criterium benchmarks (transient-zipmap defined at the REPL as in the patch):

;;; large map
user=> (def xs (range 16384))
#'user/xs
user=> (last xs)
16383
user=> (c/bench (zipmap xs xs))
Evaluation count : 13920 in 60 samples of 232 calls.
             Execution time mean : 4.329635 ms
    Execution time std-deviation : 77.791989 us
   Execution time lower quantile : 4.215050 ms ( 2.5%)
   Execution time upper quantile : 4.494120 ms (97.5%)
nil
user=> (c/bench (transient-zipmap xs xs))
Evaluation count : 21180 in 60 samples of 353 calls.
             Execution time mean : 2.818339 ms
    Execution time std-deviation : 110.751493 us
   Execution time lower quantile : 2.618971 ms ( 2.5%)
   Execution time upper quantile : 3.025812 ms (97.5%)

Found 2 outliers in 60 samples (3.3333 %)
	low-severe	 2 (3.3333 %)
 Variance from outliers : 25.4675 % Variance is moderately inflated by outliers
nil

;;; small map
user=> (def ys (range 16))
#'user/ys
user=> (last ys)
15
user=> (c/bench (zipmap ys ys))
Evaluation count : 16639020 in 60 samples of 277317 calls.
             Execution time mean : 3.803683 us
    Execution time std-deviation : 88.431220 ns
   Execution time lower quantile : 3.638146 us ( 2.5%)
   Execution time upper quantile : 3.935160 us (97.5%)
nil
user=> (c/bench (transient-zipmap ys ys))
Evaluation count : 18536880 in 60 samples of 308948 calls.
             Execution time mean : 3.412992 us
    Execution time std-deviation : 81.338284 ns
   Execution time lower quantile : 3.303888 us ( 2.5%)
   Execution time upper quantile : 3.545549 us (97.5%)
nil

Clearly the semantics are preserved provided transients satisfy their contract.

I think I might not have started a ggroup thread for this, sorry.

Linux herberteuler 3.2.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Sat May 12 23:08:28 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The second behavior should be in Clojure 1.3:

$ clojure1.3 ~/tmp/proxy-bug.clj
Exception in thread "main" clojure.lang.ArityException: Wrong number of args (4) passed to: user$eval1$fn
at clojure.lang.AFn.throwArity(AFn.java:437)
at clojure.lang.AFn.invoke(AFn.java:51)
at user.proxy$java.io.InputStream$0.read(Unknown Source)
at user$eval1.invoke(proxy-bug.clj:9)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.eval(Compiler.java:6468)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.load(Compiler.java:6905)
at clojure.lang.Compiler.loadFile(Compiler.java:6866)
at clojure.main$load_script.invoke(main.clj:282)
at clojure.main$script_opt.invoke(main.clj:342)
at clojure.main$main.doInvoke(main.clj:426)
at clojure.lang.RestFn.invoke(RestFn.java:408)
at clojure.lang.Var.invoke(Var.java:401)
at clojure.lang.AFn.applyToHelper(AFn.java:161)
at clojure.lang.Var.applyTo(Var.java:518)
at clojure.main.main(main.java:37)

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Note that this would require PersistentTreeMap to implement IEditableCollection as well.

Jason, have you tried to build this using JDK 1.6.0? I've tried on Mac OS X 10.6.8 + Oracle/Apple JDK 1.6.0 and Ubuntu 11.10 + IBM JDK 1.6.0, and on both it compiles, but during the tests fails with a ClassNotFoundException for class jsr166y.ForkJoinTask.

It builds and tests cleanly on Ubuntu 11.10 + Oracle JDK 1.7.0 for me.

That's an issue that applies to all of core.reducers. Alan Malloy experienced it as well. I tried fixing it, but eventually just upgraded to JDK 1.7. I don't understand why it's happening.

This issue is isolated to mvn test afaik.

When I include clojure inside a leiningen project, and add jsr166y.jar to lib directory, core.reducers works fine with java 1.6.

Jason, you say it applies to all of core.reducers in your May 17, 2012 comment. I don't understand. Without your patch applied, I can run "./antsetup.sh ; ant" in a freshly-pulled Clojure git repo on either of the JDK 1.6.0 versions mentioned in my earlier comment, and do not get any errors during the tests. Are you saying perhaps that core.reducers currently has no tests that exercise the problem now, but your patch adds such tests that fail, even with no other changes to the code?

Yah that's right. Now that you mention it, my patch is the first unit test to call r/fold (the existing tests do non-parallel reductions).

With Stuart Halloway's commit to Clojure master on June 8, 2012 titled "let reducers tests work under ant", patch 0001-repeat-for-clojure.core.reducers.patch dated May 11, 2012 now runs correctly even the new unit tests requiring class jsr166y.ForkJoinTask with Oracle/Apple JDK 1.6 and Linux IBM JDK 1.6.

I'm on the contributors list. Is this patch still needed?
sorry for long long delay.

This patch should wait until http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ-993 is committed. I think there's a some shared code.

Implemented range. A separate commit is attached, making iterate and range also Seqable, since I'm not sure if that's desired. Apply it or not, as you prefer.

Range should be foldable

Yep, so it should. Time for me to dig into the folding implementations!

Should I fold (har har) all of these commits into one? I don't know what is preferred on JIRA, and I also don't know whether range/iterate should be seqable or if I should just drop the second commit.

Yes, please merge these together, it's hard to see otherwise (I can barely read diffs as is . range and iterate shouldn't be novel in reducers, but just enhanced return values of core fns. The enhancement (e.g. protocol extensions) can come by requiring reducers since it can't be leveraged without it. Also, I'm not sure how I feel about an allocating protocol for 'splittable' - I've avoided it thus far.

So you want clojure.core/range to return some object (a Range), which implements Counted and Seqable (but isn't just a lazy-seq), and then inside of clojure.core.reducers I extend CollReduce and CollFold to that type? Okay, I can do that.

I don't quite follow what you mean by an allocating protocol. I see your point that my fold-by-halves which takes a function in is analogous to a protocol with a single function, but it doesn't allocate anything more than foldvec already does - I just pulled that logic out so that the fork/join fiddly work doesn't need to be repeated in everything foldable. Do you have an alternative recommendation, or is it just something that makes you uneasy and you're still thinking about?

While vector-fold allocs subvecs, the halving-fn must return a new vector, for all implementations. It's ok, I don't think it's likely to dominate (since fj needs new closures anyway). Please proceed, but keep range and iterate in core. They are sources, not transformers, and only transformers (which must be different from their seq-based counterparts) must reside in reducers. Thanks!

One big patch file is preferred, although that file may contain multiple commits if that makes the intent clearer.

When adding a patch, update the description of the ticket to indicate which file is the most recent. Leave old patch files around for historical reference.

It's looking harder than I expected to move iterate and range into core.clj. My plan was to just have them implement Seqable, which is easy enough, but currently they are actually instances of ISeq, because they inherit from LazySeq. A bunch of code all over the place (eg, to print them in the repl) depends on them being ISeq, so I can't just ignore it. To implement all of these methods (around thirty) would take a large amount of code, which can't easily be shared between Iteration, Range, and any future reducible sources that are added to core.clj.

I could write a macro like (defseq Range [start end step] Counted (count [this] ...) ...) which takes normal deftype args and also adds in implementations for ISeq, Collection, and so forth in terms of (.seq this), which will be a LazySeq. However, this seems like a somewhat awkward approach that I would be a little embarrassed to clutter up core.clj with. If anyone has a better alternative I will be pleased to hear it. In the mean time, I will go ahead with this macro implementation, in case it turns out to be the best choice.

– This patch subsumes all previous patches to this issue and to CLJ-992 –

In order to create an object which is both a lazy sequence and a
reducible source, I needed to add a macro named defseq to core_deftype.
It is basically a reimplementation of clojure.lang.LazySeq as a clojure
macro, so that I can "mix in" lazy-sequence functions into a new class
with whatever methods are needed for reducing and folding.

If we wanted, we could use this macro to implement lazy-seq in clojure instead of in java, but that's unrelated so I didn't do that in this patch.

As noted in a previous comment, defseq may not be the right approach, but this works until something better is suggested.

I accidentally included an implementation of drop-while in this patch, which I was playing around with to make sure I understood how this all works. I guess I'll leave it in for the moment, since it works and is useful, but I can remove it, or move it to a new JIRA ticket, if it's not wanted at this time.

Ok, I think this patch is officially off the rails. There must be a better way. Let's start with: touching core/deftype and reimplementing lazy-seq as a macro are off the table. The return value of range doesn't have to be a LazySeq, it has to be a lazy seq, .e.g. implement ISeq (7 methods, not 30) which it can do by farming out to its existing impl. It can also implement some new interface for use by the reducer logic. There is also still clojure.lang.Range still there, which is another approach. Please take an extremely conservative approach in these things.

Okay, thanks for the feedback - I'm glad I went into that last patch knowing it was probably wrong . I thought I would need to implement the java collection interfaces that LazySeq does, eg java.util.List, in order to avoid breaking interop functions like (defn range-list [n] (ArrayList. (range n))). If it's sufficient to implement ISeq (and thus IPersistentCollection), then that's pretty manageable.

It's still an unpleasant chunk of boilerplate for each new source, though; would you welcome a macro like defseq if I didn't put it in core_deftype? If so, it seems like it might as well implement the interop interfaces; if not, I can skip them and implement the 7 (isn't it more like 9?) methods in ISeq, IPersistentCollection, and Seqable for each new source type.

Thanks for pointing out clojure.lang.Range to me - I didn't realize we had it there. Of course with implementation inheritance it would be easy to make Range, Iteration, etc inherit from LazySeq and just extend protocols from them. But that means moving functionality out of clojure and into java, which I didn't think we'd want to do.

I'll put together a patch that just implements ISeq by hand for both of these new types, and attach it probably later today.

So I've written a patch that implements ISeq, but not the java Collections interfaces, and it mostly works but there are definitely assumptions in some parts of clojure.core and clojure.lang that assume seqs are Collections. The most obvious to me (ie, it shows up when running mvn test) is RT/toArray - it tests for Collection, but never for ISeq, implying that it's not willing to handle an ISeq that is not also a collection. Functions which rely on toArray (eg to-array and vec) now fail.

This patch subsumes all previous patches on this issue, but is not suitable for application because it leaves some failing tests behind - it is intended only for intermediate feedback.

It would be a great help if, time permitting, you could please write up the issues, challenges and options you've discovered somewhere on the dev wiki (even a simple table would be fantastic). I realize this has been a challenging task, and at this point perhaps we should opt for the more modest reducers/range and reducers/iterate and leave the two worlds separate. I'd like at some point to unify range, as there are many extant ranges it would be nice to be able to fold, as we can extant vectors.

Should r/range return something Seqable and Counted?

If so, I'll do the same for r/repeat.

I've sketched out a description of the issues and options. I'm not very familiar with the dev wiki and couldn't figure out where was the right place to put this. "release.next" seems to still be about 1.4 issues, and I don't know if it's "appropriate" to create a whole new category for this. It's available as a gist until a better home can be found for it.

Here's a single patch summing up the state Rich suggested "rolling back" to: separate r/range and r/iterate functions. I haven't heard any feedback since doing the writeup Rich asked for, so am not making any further progress at the moment; if something other than this patch is desired just let me know.

I prefer not to see the use of extend like this for new types. Perhaps this code is too DRY? Also, it does a lot in one patch which makes it hard to parse and accept. This adds Range, switches impl of vector folds etc. Can it be broken up into separate tickets that do each step that builds on the previous, e.g. one ticket could be: capture vector fold impl for reuse by similar things.

Okay, I should be able to split it up over the weekend. I'll also see about converting fold-by-halves into a function that is used by Range/Vector, rather than a function that gets extended onto them.

As requested, I have split up the large patch on this issue into four smaller tickets. The other three are: CLJ-1045, CLJ-1046, and CLJ-992.

CLJ-1045 contains the implementation of fold-by-halves, and as such this patch cannot be applied until CLJ-1045 is accepted. This ticket does not depend on the other two, but there will be minor merge conflicts if this is merged before them.

Should I have made this implement Seqable as well? It wasn't clear to me, because as far as I could see this was the only function in clojure.core.reducers that's generating a brand-new sequence rather than transforming an existing one.

Previous version neglected to include the seed value of the iteration in the reduce.

Currying iterate seems useless, albeit not harmful.

While implementing repeat, I couldn't use currying. Because 1-arity is already reserved for infinite repeat ([n x] and [x], not [n x] and [n] if currying)

How about we just support currying for functions where last param is reducible?

This new patch replaces the previous patch. As requested, I am splitting up the large issue CLJ-993 into smaller tickets.

Does not depend on any of my other reducer patches, but there will probably be some minor merge conflicts unless it is merged after CLJ-1045 and CLJ-1046, and before CLJ-993.

Mac OS X 10.5, lein 1.7 and lein 2.0

I can't reproduce this under Clojure 1.3 or 1.4, and Leiningen 1.7.1 on either Java 1.7.0-jdk7u4-b21 OpenJDK 64-Bit or Java 1.6.0_31 Java HotSpot 64-Bit. OS is Mac OS X 10.7.

Edmund, how are you running this AOT code? I wrapped your code in a main function and built an uberjar from it.

Hi Scott,

Interesting.

I have two use cases
1. AOT compile and call from repl.
My steps: git clone, lein compile, lein repl, (use 'aots.death), (in-ns 'aots.death), (= (class (Dontwork. nil)) (class (map->Dontwork {:a 1}))) => false

2. My original use case, which I've minimised here, is an AOT ns, producing a genclass that is called instantiated from other Java (no main). This produces the same error. I will produce an example of this and post it too.

Hi Scott,

Here is an example of it failing in the interop case: https://github.com/ejackson/aotquestion2
The steps I'm following to compile this all up are

git clone git@github.com:ejackson/aotquestion2.git
cd aotquestion2/cljside/
lein uberjar
lein install
cd ../javaside/
mvn package
java -jar ./target/aotquestion-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

and it dies with this:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: cljside.core.Dontwork cannot be cast to cljside.core.Dontwork
at cljside.MyClass.makeDontwork(Unknown Source)
at aotquestion.App.main(App.java:8)

The error message is really confusing (to me, anyway), but I think its the same root problem as for the REPL case.

What do you see when you run the above ?

Ah, yes, looks like my initial attempt to reproduce was too simplistic. I used your second git repo, and can now confirm that it's failing for me with the same error.

I looked into this a little further and the AOT generated code looks correct, in the sense that both code paths appear to be returning the same type.

However, I wonder if this is really a ClassLoader issue, whereby two definitions of the same class are being loaded at different times, because that would cause the x.y.Class cannot be cast to x.y.Class exception that we're seeing here.

Fix inaccurate documentation string

Apache Commons Beanutils has their own implementation of this, at http://www.docjar.com/html/api/org/apache/commons/beanutils/MethodUtils.java.html#771 – notably, it tries to reflect a method with the given signature and catches the exception on failure, rather than iterating through the whole list. This may be a better approach – I'm unfamiliar with how the cost of exception handling compares with that of reflecting on the full method list of a class.

Prior version of patch were missing new test suite files. Corrected.

Thanks for the patches, Charles. Could you please create a patch in the desired format and attach that, and then remove the obsolete patches? Instructions for creating a patch are under the heading "Development" at this page: http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/JIRA+workflow

Instructions for removing patches are under the heading "Removing patches" on that same page.

Added a patch created per documented process.

I found in my code that it's possible to get a NPE if there is no read-method, for instance on the http://docs.cascading.org/cascading/2.0/javadoc/cascading/flow/hadoop/HadoopFlow.html object which has a setCascade method but no getter. I fixed this in our code by inlining the is-zero-args check into the public-method definition and and-ing the whole thing with 'method' like the original 'bean' code, like so:

public-method (and method (zero? (alength (. method (getParameterTypes))))
(or (and (java.lang.reflect.Modifier/isPublic (. c (getModifiers)))
method)
(public-version-of-method method)))

Charles, I think we should follow Apache BeanUtils on this. Exceptions not thrown are cheap. Ordinarily, exception for control flow are bad, but this is forced by bad design of reflection API.

Maven using the one-jar plugin

Reproduced on Ubuntu using Sun Java 1.6, OpenJDK 1.6, and Sun Java 1.7

Jeff, this occurs in any Clojure program where certain threading mechanisms are invoked. In your case, clojure.java.shell/sh uses future, which causes threads to be created that then sit around for about 60 seconds after everything else quits, and the main Java process does not exit until that happens. Another way to get the program to exit quickly is to call (shutdown-agents), but that isn't any more convenient than (System/exit 0), nor is there any obvious way you can tell as a newcomer that you should be doing this.

The ticket CLJ-124 is marked with status "Approved" at this time, which leads me to believe that perhaps soon there will be a change made to Clojure such that this situation will change.

This behavior is now documented on clojuredocs.org for future, and both pmap and clojure.java.shell/sh refer to future for details.

Patch 0001-let-undeclared-exceptions-continue-unchecked.patch applies cleanly to latest master as of March 9, 2012, and build and test without errors or warnings. One author, Brian Taylor, has signed CA.

Clojure 1.3 om Mac OS 10.7, Clojure 1.5.0 alpha1 on Linux x86_64 (OpenJDK 1.7.0 b147)

The attached patch fixes the issue, by emitting IPersistentMap instead of Persistent{Hash|Array}Map as class type for maps literals

I uploaded another patch fixing the same problem in a different way.
While 0001-Fix-for-CLJ-944.patch makes clojure.lang.Complier.ConstantExpr#getJavaClass return clojure.lang.IPersistentMap for both clojure.lang.PersistentHashMap and clojure.lang.PersistentArrayMap, 0002-Fix-for-CLJ-944.patch makes clojure.lang.Compiler.MapExpr#parse return a PersistentArrayMap if the length is <= HASHTABLE_THRESHOLD, instead of always returning a PersistentHashMap.

This approach is more consistent, making the type of the compiler's internal representation of a map literal equal to the one of the reader.

Note that this second approach while being more consistent, breaks some tests that assume some operations on maps (specifically `seq` and `print`) to be order dependent, and written with the hash-map return order implementation in mind.

That should not be the case and if the second patch is preferred over the first one, I'll gladly fix those tests.

Approach #2, relying on consistent choice of concrete map class by size throughout, feels quite fragile.

Approach #1 seems to abuse the method name getJavaClass(), now having it return "get the base type I would need for cast".

Maybe there needs to be a different thing entirely?

Patch #2 should get merged (IMHO) regardless of the fragility of its approach to fixing this ticket's bug, since it fixes another bug:

prior to the patch:

user=> (class {:a 1})
clojure.lang.PersistentArrayMap
user=> (def a {:a 1})
#'user/a
user=> (class a)
clojure.lang.PersistentHashMap

after the patch:

user=> (class {:a 1})
clojure.lang.PersistentArrayMap
user=> (def a {:a 1})
#'user/a
user=> (class a)
clojure.lang.PersistentArrayMap

This should also lead to some minor performance enhancement since prior to this moment, every map def'ed would be a HashMap instead of an ArrayMap

So, I think patch #2 should be applied if not for this ticket's bug, at least for the reason stated above.
If somebody has any proposal for making this patch more solid regarding this ticket's bug, any help is welcome

This should not have passed screening. There are two issues, should be separate. I have no idea what has been screened nor what will be applied should it be approved. There's contention in the discussion but no resolution.

I don't think that there are two issues here.
The issue is only one: the compiler doesn't emit maps in a way consistent with what the reader returns and with how the compiler itself uses maps.
The symptoms are two: some interop calls fail, and def'ed vars with a literal map as value never use a PersistentArrayMap.

The underlying cause of those two symtoms is fixed by the patch 002 that i submitted (incorporated in Stu's clj944-plus-tests patch.

Stuart said that this approach feels fragile but the bug is caused by the fact that everywhere else clojure returns a PersistentArrayMap when the element count is <= than the PersistentHashMap threshold, and when emitting maps, it doesn't.

Making clojure emit maps consistently with how clojure does internally everywhere else looks to me like the only solution, and I don't really see how making clojure consistent is a fragile approach.

But again, if somebody can suggest a better solution to this problem, I'll gladly submit another patch.

Corrected patch

Patch 0001-report-load-exception-with-file-and-line.diff fails build. Patch 0002-report-load-exception-with-file-and-line.diff applies, builds, and tests cleanly as of March 9, 2012. Hugo has signed a CA.

clj-939-report-load-exceptions-with-file-and-line-patch-v2.txt dated Oct 5 2012 is intended to be an update to Hugo Duncan's patch 0002-report-load-exceptions-with-file-and-line.diff dated Feb 25 2012. Because of Brandon Bloom's recently commited patch adding column numbers in addition to line numbers, this is not simply updating some lines of context, but I think it is correct. It would be good if Hugo could take a look at it and confirm.

Screened.

The error messages are better than what we had before. The line/column numbers are not particularly informative, probably because ns is a macro.

This patch doesn't change the reporting on any other (e.g. nested) exceptions? It looks like it might.

OS X, Java 1.6.0?

Discussed here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure/XvJUzaY1jec/l8xEwlFl8EUJ

please no

Alan Malloy raises a good point in the google group discussion (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure/XvJUzaY1jec/aVpWBicwGhsJ) about accidental confusion between trailing (or floating) and leading colons:
"It isn't even as simple as "letting them
be whitespace", because presumably you want (read-string "{a: b}") to
result in (hash-map 'a 'b), but (read-string "{a :b}") to result in
(hash-map 'a :b)."

This issue could be avoided by only treating a colon as whitespace when followed by a comma. As easy cut-paste of json seems the be the key motivation here, the commas are going to be there anyway: valid {"v":, 1234} vs syntax error {a-key: should-be-a-keyword}.

This would be visually confusing imo.

Please, oh please, no.

Er, brain fart. I was typing faster than I was thinking and put the comma in the wrong place. In my head I meant the form following the colon would have to have a comma after it. Thus, {"a-json-key": 1234, ...} would be valid while {"a-json-key": was-supposed-to-be-a-keyword "another-json-key" foo} would complain about the colon being an Invalid Token. I don't see the need for it, however.

Clojure already has reader syntax for a map. If we support JSON, do we also support ruby map literals? Seems like this addition would only add confusion, imo, given colons are used in keywords and keywords are frequently used in maps - e.g., when de-serializing from XML, or even JSON.

Clojure is no longer a language hosted only on the JVM. Clojure is also hosted on the CLR, and JavaScript. In particular ClojureScript can't currently easily deal with JSON literals - an extremely common (though problematic) data format. By allowing colon whitespace in map literals - Clojure data structures can effectively become an extensible JSON superset - giving the succinctness of JSON and the expressiveness of XML.

+1 from me.

Clojure is only hosted on the JVM; ClojureScript is hosted on JS VMs. If this is useful for CLJS, it should just be a CLJS feature.

-1 for this whole idea: that way madness lies....

If we keep adding syntactical oddities like this then the language will become unmaintainably complex. It's the exact opposite of simple to have lots of special cases and ambiguities that you have to remember.

If people want to use JSON that is fine, but then the best approach use a specific JSON parser/writer, not just paste it into Clojure source and expect it to work.

-1 for reasons mentioned by Allan Malloy and Mike Anderson

All

diff.patch of Nov 27, 2011 does not apply cleanly to latest master version of Clojure code (using "patch -p1 < diff.patch", at least). It is preferred by Clojure team that patches are in git format-patch format. Instructions for producing such a patch are given at http://clojure.org/patches

Rahul, are you planning to sign a Clojure Contributor Agreement? Without that, this code cannot be included in Clojure, unless a contributor reimplements it on their own.

In private communication with the patch author today, he expressed an interest in submitting a signed CA so this patch can be considered for inclusion in Clojure.

I just added clj-866-test-vars.patch (22/Oct/12 6:09PM).

I had to implement this hackishly in Leiningen a few days ago, so I'm very excited to get this functionality in clojure.test itself.

This patch adds a test-vars function that solves this problem (and is more general). You can test as many vars as you want with it, with fixtures. It works by grouping vars passed by their namespace and then running them all with appropriate fixtures applied. Being able to run a single test isn't the problem here, being able to run only specific tests is. If we wrote a function to run one test with fixtures but we actually needed to run several, just not all tests, we'd end up having to run once-fixtures more than once which is wasteful. I think test-vars is a good solution that solves both this problem and the one I just mentioned.

This is highly useful. Could you add a test to the patch?